The Hope pioneer., 1887-11-18
WEST AND SOUTH.

AN eleven-year-old colored youth named
Charles II. Locksley was sentenced at At
lanta, Ga, on the 9th to life-imprisonment
for murder.
The deaths of ten persons by poison
placed in food at party given by family
named King, in Delhi, La, were reported
on the 9th. There was trouble in the party,
and Mrs King was charged with poisoning
! the food
coLoRED crook and desperate named
George Grant was shot by an officer at
Kansas City on the 9th, falling dead near
the spot where, five years ago, he killed
Policeman Jones' For the latter crime an
| innocent negro was lynched by mob
The iron industry Of Northern Michigan
had, it was reported on the 9th, been almost
ruined on account of the scarcity of char
coal
AN incendiary fire on the 9th destroyed
i've of the largest business houses in Muir
freesboro, Tenn.
IN Grant County, Ind, two-thirds Of the
wells were dry on the 9th. The water fam
me was causing great suffering.
| MATAMoRAs tTex) advices of the 9th say
that nine Of the bandits captured by the
| military up the river had been executed
IHE arrest Of Cashier c. G. Crecilius, of
the suspended Fifth National Bank of St
Louis, was made on the 9th on charges of
fraud and forgery, amounting to over
100000 The collapse of the bank was
due to his peculationa
AT Cimarron, Kan, seven business places
were burned on the 9th.
governor OGLEsBY, on the afternoon Of
the 10th, made public his decision in the
case of the Chicago Anarchists, which COM
mutes the sentences of Samuel Fielden and
Michael Schwab to imprisonment for life
and says that August Spies, Albert r.
Parsons, Adolph Fischer and George Engel
must suffer the penalty of death.
FULL returns of the recent election in Da-
kota received on the 10th report that fifty-
six of the sixty-seven counties in the Ter
r1tory voted In favor of Prohibition. The
Northern half against division, while the
Southern part gave large majority for it
THH skeletons of a man and woman were
on the 10th found on a farm near Wabash,
Ind Nobody knew any thing Of the mys-
terry surrounding their presence
AT Peru. Ind, on the 10Th, William Green
was found guilty of numbering Enos Brum-
baugh. The sentence was imprisonment
for life. He was brother Of Amer Green.
lynched recently for killing Luella Mabbitt
The plurality for Governor Foraker at the
recent election in Ohio was on the 10th
given at $4,000 The Legislature stands:
neutrality-suspicious. "a; Democrats, 10.
and 2 doubtful The House-Republicans
81: Democrats, 43, and 4 doubtful.
AT the county Jail in Chicago on the
morning of the 10th the officials were
startled by loud report that proceeded
from the cell of the Anarchist, Louis Linge.
and upon investigation it was discovered
| that the desperate man had mutilated his
face horribly by exploding Illuminating
cap in his mouth He survived his injuries
about six hours, death ensuing about three
o'clock in the afternoon
GN-HousE on an Arkansas cotton plan
] tation was destroyed by fire on the 10th,
four men perishing IN the fames
| The building occupied by the Detroit
Evening \eus was destroyed by fire on the
night of the 10th
| GOVERNOR LARRABEE's plurality in Iowa at
the recent election was on the 10th placed
at about 16, 900 and his majority at 5000
The Republican majority in the Legislature
will be 80, with one seat in doubt
The forest fires that had been raging for
some time in the southern portion of I'LL
nois and in Southern Indiana were on the
10th partially extinguished by rain.
WILLIAM NJ LOCKE, a retired banker who
had lost most of his wealth by unfortunate
| speculation, committed suicide on the 10th
by shooting at Des Moines, Ia.
The seventh annual session of the Ma
tional Farmers Congress commenced in
| Chicago on the 10th The president.
Colonel Robert Beverly, of Virginia. deliv-
cred an address.
Two WHITE men had, 1t was reported on
the 11th, been lynched near Shreveport,
La, for living with colored women, and q
negro met the same fate for living with a
white woman. The people were determined
to stop miscegenation.
ESTIMATES made on the 18th for new
lights and repairs to lighthouses in Michi-
gan for the next fiscal year foot up $780,
OFFICER HENRY SMITH, Of Chicago. who
has just recovered from wounds received ut
the Haymarket riot, was attacked by an
Anarchist on the 11th, who attempted first
to choke and then to shoot him. The man
| was arrested
THE official returns of the recent election
| In Ohio received on the 11th Republican
plurality of 5S,O52; Democrats, 34,499:
| net Republican, 23. 1853. The Senate stands:
Republicans, 25; Democrats, IL; the House.
Republicans "a; Democrats, a.
FIRE destroyed the large cotton shed of
Brooks, Nicely & Co., at Memphis, Tenn, on
tho 18th, with 53, 900 bales of cotton. Loss,
1926, 900; insurance, $2OO,O00